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11:34:20 PM Museum of Contemporary Art honors Annie Leibovitz
The Associated Press

(AP) — Annie Leibovitz has photographed practically every celebrity, rock star and politician over the past four decades, but when she was honored by the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, she showed a photograph of Niagara Falls. [more]

11:34:20 PM Met Museum Will Amend Wall Text to Reflect Gertrude Stein's Vichy Ties
American ...

By RANDY KENNEDY The Metropolitan Museum of Art's popular “The Steins Collect” exhibition – more than 200 works that demonstrate the influence of Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael and her sister-in-law Sarah as 20th century art patrons ... [more]

11:34:20 PM Japan Tsunami Debris: Canadian Museum Launches Recovery Project
ABC News - United States

The Maritime Museum of British Columbia has just launched what it calls the “Tsunami Debris Project”, which aims to collect photos of the flotsam that washes ashore and potentially reunite lost items with their owners. “The idea is to not only docume [more]

11:34:20 PM Museum or no museum, Jim Watson wins either way
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada

The mayor says the former US embassy should be converted into “Canada House”, a popular Canadian history museum. Rather a mini-Smithsonian. This could appeal to Harper, given that his cancelling of the proposed National Portrait Gallery of Canada in  [more]

11:29:30 PM New Tour at Museum Reveals All
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

SYDNEY, Australia — The people gathering for a tour of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia on Friday evening smiled awkwardly in the way of strangers who had to undress in front of one another. Which is what they were about to do. [more]

11:29:30 PM Suppressing Ugly Truth for Beautiful Art
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The Metropolitan Museum in New York, in its current exhibit on the collection of Gertrude Stein and her family, has made a decision to suppress the ugly truth about her collaboration with Nazism during the German occupation of France. [more]

8:00:52 PM Fitzwilliam Museum theft: New CCTV images released
BBC Sport - UK

CCTV images have been released of four men police want to speak to in connection with the theft of Chinese art from a Cambridge University museum. Officers believe up to four men were involved in the theft of 18 jade items from the Fitzwilliam Museum [more]

8:00:52 PM Masur Museum of Art
Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA

May 12 - July 21, 2012, The Masur Museum of Art Annual Juried Competition showcases contemporary artists throughout the United States of America working in any medium. This year our Juror is Liza Simone, Founding Director of Phantom Galleries, ... [more]

7:33:51 PM Syria's cultural treasures latest uprising victim
FOX News - USA

Looters have stolen artifacts from excavations and museums. In one of the most egregious examples, shells thudded into the walls of the 12th century al-Madeeq Citadel, raising flames and columns of smoke as regime forces battled with rebels in March. [more]

7:33:51 PM The Guggenheim Museum's “Transhistoria” comes to Jackson Heights
Queens Courier

The Guggenheim Museum is presenting “Transhistoria” – the third edition in its “stillspotting nyc” exhibit in Jackson Heights, inviting patrons to experience the neighborhood through a series of cultural and personal narratives written by local ... [more]

5:14:07 PM Museum to feature Chickasha native sons
Chickasha Express Star

Dudley Dickerson and Cleavon Little, both born and raised in Chickasha, will be featured artists in a new statewide museum called OKPOP, the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture. “The rest of the world knows Cleavon Little and Dudley Dickerson as ... [more]

5:14:07 PM Portland railroad museum's tracks lead out of town
The Forecaster

Mosher said the location on the peninsula is more accessible than the railway museum's proposed move to Gray. "I wish it could stay," volunteer conductor Arthur Hussey, right, added. The Narrow Gauge Railroad awaits its a group of passengers along th [more]

5:14:07 PM How to beat the European sightseeing lines
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

Many museums are free one day a month — a great deal for locals. But for visitors, it's generally worth paying the entrance fee on a different day to avoid the hordes on a museum's free day. The Sistine Chapel in Rome feels more like the Sardine ... [more]

2:58:30 PM World War II Museum in New Orleans is expecting to get its 3 millionth
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post NEW ORLEANS — The World War II Museum, which opened June 6, 2000, in New Orleans, expects its three millionth visitor to arrive sometime Tuesday. The museum has been experiencing record-setting attendance. Last month, it had a total o [more]

2:58:30 PM New Civil War exhibit opens at Old State House Museum
Today's THV - Little Rock,AR,USA

LITTLE ROCK, AR - The Old State House Museum hosts its second exhibit to commemorate the sesquicentennial of the Civil War from May 5, 2012, to February 1, 2013. The exhibit, Battle Colors of Arkansas, will help visitors understand Arkansas's place i [more]

2:58:30 PM Michener Art Museum honors outstanding volunteers
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA

The James A. Michener Art Museum honored four outstanding volunteers at its 18th annual Volunteer Recognition Award Ceremony on Tuesday, April 24. The event celebrates the dedicated and enthusiastic volunteers who continually support the Michener Art [more]

2:58:30 PM Taipei's Palace Museum to expand
China View, Beijing, China

TAIPEI, May 1 (Xinhua) -- Taipei's Palace Museum will expand its exhibition area to accommodate growing numbers of visitors, according to Taiwanese authorities in charge of economic construction. The expanded exhibition hall, together with a cultural [more]

1:58:48 PM Williams Director of Penn Museum: Julian Siggers
UPENN Almanac - Pennsylvania,USA

President Amy Gutmann and Provost Vincent Price are pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Julian Siggers as Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, effective July 1, 2012. [more]

11:36:29 AM Orion capsule arrives at Hampton museum
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA

Crews brought the 18000 pound capsule in on a flat-bed truck, and a crane was ready to go to move the spacecraft into the museum. The capsule, built by NASA Langley, will be on display all summer at the Virginia Air and Space Center . [more]

9:54:08 AM Museum woos votes in online contest
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USA

The river museum is among 500 finalists for 100 vehicles that Toyota will give to 100 nonprofit organizations as part of the 100-day, Facebook-based "100 Cars for Good" campaign. An online service is needed to view this article in its entirety. [more]

6:43:59 AM Ice age weapons donated to Ohatchee museum
Anniston Star

by Laura Johnson OHATCHEE – Three spear points that might have been used to attack a woolly mammoth during the last ice age now rest behind a glass casing in the Confederate and Native American Museum at Janney Furnace. The artifacts, called Clovis . [more]

6:43:59 AM Magnetic 3D Exhibits Glasses-Free 3D Solutions For Museums
Virtual Strategy Magazine (press release) - Bedford,NH,USA

Magnetic 3D, the global leader in autostereoscopic “glasses-free” 3D displays and digital signage solutions, is exhibiting the next generation of glasses-free 3D solutions at the 106th American Association of Museum (AAM) Annual Meeting & MuseumExpo™ [more]

6:43:59 AM New museum gallery opens in Scunthorpe today bringing North Lincolnshire ...
Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph - Scunthorpe,England,UK

A fascinating new local history gallery opens to the public at North Lincolnshire Museum in Oswald Road, Scunthorpe, today (Tuesday) from 10am. Visitors can see how North Lincolnshire developed from the early 1800s up to the start of World War Two. [more]

5:26:32 AM Getty to trim 34 jobs in its museum division
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Jim Cuno, president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, in Los Angeles on the grounds of the museum. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times / April 30, 2012) By Mike Boehm, Los Angeles Times TheJ. Paul Getty Trustannounced Monday that it was cutting 34 jobs [more]

5:26:32 AM Norwalk Museum Restructuring Committee starts work Tuesday
The Hour

NORWALK -- The Mayor's Museum Restructuring Committee will chart out its mission and schedule during its inaugural meeting at City Hall this afternoon. "(Today) is just (establishing) the scope of the project: What we want to accomplish," said Richar [more]

5:26:32 AM Cape Girardeau children's museum to seek new executive director
Southeast Missourian

By Shay Alderman ~ Southeast Missourian The Discovery Playhouse will see the departure of executive director Jennifer Mullix this month, and the growing Cape Girardeau children's museum will be searching to fill her position by early summer. [more]

2:23:24 AM Toledo Museum of Art to be exclusive United States venue for Manet
Art Daily - Eastport,Maine,USA

Art Daily An exhibition of portraits by acclaimed French artist Edouard Manet, sometimes referred to as “the father of Impressionism,” opens this fall at the Toledo Museum of Art, the exclusive North American venue for Manet: Portraying Life. [more]

12:51:25 AM Turkish Nobel Laureate Pamuk's Museum of Innocence Parallels Book
Voice of America - USA

April 30, 2012 Turkish Nobel Laureate Pamuk's Museum of Innocence Parallels Book Dorian Jones | Istanbul, Turkey Cataloging Turkey's history during the turbulent times of the 1960s and 1970s, and paralleling a recent book by Turkey's Nobel laureate,  [more]

12:51:25 AM 'House & Home' at the National Building Museum
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Through photos and artifacts, the exhibit at the National Building Museum examines the house as physical shelter and emotional nest. Addison N. Scurlock / Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution A family barbecue [more]

12:51:25 AM Military-history museum moves to bigger quarters in Kissimmee
Orlando Sentinel

By David Breen, Orlando Sentinel Central Florida's only museum dedicated to America's long military history has moved into a new home in Kissimmee, allowing it to quadruple its exhibit space. The new Museum of Military History of Osceola County, ... [more]

12:51:25 AM Playground fighter jet now in Pacific Air Museum
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

The Pacific Coast Air Museum had just two aircraft on display when the Navy called in early 1993. An old war plane needed to be moved, and the military wanted the fledgling Santa Rosa museum to pick it up. "I remember saying to somebody, ... [more]



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